LPDA is excited to announce the opening of the interactive fountain at Potomac Yard Park. The fountain features 2 long steel grated troughs containing lights are jets. LPDA designed the fountain with Delta Fountains from Jacksonville, FL who have done the World Trade Center Memorial and Pentagon Memorial Fountains. The
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28 May 14Zac LetteBlog, NewsComments Off on Can playground safety surfacing be overdone?
Is it possible for playground surfacing to be too thick?
Can other uses impede the safety of rubberized surface?
LPDA is working with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) on the rehabilitation of the on campus playgrounds associated with the staff daycare.
After discovering sprawling along the surfacing of the existing rubber playground
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14 May 14JohnBlog, NewsComments Off on ARC Releases Annual Report
Page 14 of the report features a project which will be an important amenity for the Richmond region. LPDA has partnered with the ARC to create a one of a kind universally accessible and inclusive park and play environment. The park features many interactive elements, including sensory gardens, sensory walls,
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25 Apr 14JohnBlog, NewsComments Off on Colonial Heights Boulevard Project Under Construction
LPDA provided landscape architectural services as part of a multidisciplinary team in the redevelopment and improvements to six blocks of Route 1 centered at Dupuy Avenue, in the City’s Boulevard Overlay District. A former lack of poor pedestrian integration and below standard vehicular conditions and property access had left this
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28 Mar 14JohnNewsComments Off on Danville Main Street Plaza Project Nears Completion
Tristan has joined the LPDA Charlottesville Office team as a project landscape designer.
Tristan’s experience working with communities in West Virginia as part of Americorps VISTA Program with the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority is an asset to our office.
Tristan has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Pennsylvania State
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25 Feb 14lpdauserBlog, NewsComments Off on Construction on Adler Center for Caring
Construction on the Adler Center for Caring is wrapping up. We caught this snapshot of the finished arbor, fountain, donor pavers, and private terraces between snow
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12 Dec 13JohnBlog, NewsComments Off on VMRC Woodland Park, Greenhouse Project, One Year and Going Strong
Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community has made a commitment to the national GREEN HOUSE movement in caring for the elderly. This continuing care community consists of 10 residential scale buildings with 10 homes per building. Woodland Park’s unique model emphasizes social interactions and personal relationships in a warm, inviting
